July 17, 2017

Would Joe Scarborough please go away?

This is rich, coming from a guy who, counter to conservatism's basics and the U.S. Constitution, helped to spearhead a flimsy, shoddy impeachment movement against a legitimately elected president:

I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments. President Trump’s Republicans have devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed about the basics of conservatism, U.S. history and the Constitution.

As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a $155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the national debt … and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow Wilson blush.

A foreign-policy utopianism that Scarborough promoted in his early broadcast years, on primetime MSNBC. As he said in 2003 of anti-Iraq-war protesters: "Leftist stooges for anti-American causes are always given a free pass. Isn't it time to make them stand up and be counted for their views?"

Sounds like a good idea to me, Joe. From the right, when do you plan on doing it?

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This is rich, coming from a guy who, counter to conservatism's basics and the U.S. Constitution, helped to spearhead a flimsy, shoddy impeachment movement against a legitimately elected president:

I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments. President Trump’s Republicans have devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed about the basics of conservatism, U.S. history and the Constitution.

As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a $155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the national debt … and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow Wilson blush.

A foreign-policy utopianism that Scarborough promoted in his early broadcast years, on primetime MSNBC. As he said in 2003 of anti-Iraq-war protesters: "Leftist stooges for anti-American causes are always given a free pass. Isn't it time to make them stand up and be counted for their views?"

Sounds like a good idea to me, Joe. From the right, when do you plan on doing it?